Um, no, hardly. He wouldn't be such a darling of the upper middle class without your tax dollars supporting him.

No opinion on which he is but I was reading an article on batteries, the Giga Factory, battery technology, etc. Tesla recently hired a "battery genius" to help design new technology. What I did not know is the current technology is not anything special. The S model has a 900 lb battery pack with 6831 individual lithium ion batteries. The estimate is that after five years of 10,000 miles per year the battery pack will lose 30% of their capacity. Not sure of the replacement cost once the pack, I saw prices ranging from $12,000 to $29,000 depending on when you buy the pack. Seems that Tesla offers (or did offer ) an option to buy a replacement pack for a deep discount at the time of vehicle purchase. My guess is that price includes the disposal of the old batteries. The Model 3 lower priced sedan likely will not qualify for the tax credit of $7500. The federal tax credit applies to the first 200,000 that Tesla manufactures so the tax credit will be gone by the time the M is available.

Holy shit...there are people out there that think the earth if flat?
Flabbergasted.
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I used to work with a guy who appeared somewhat normal on the outside, and held down a job and mortgage, but believed, seriously, that aliens colonized the dark side of the moon. Don't ever ask him about what really went down on 9/11.